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Forest Service ginseng permits stay at reduced level

From Asheville Citizen-Times

Melissa Fryar is rather particular about the precious ginseng roots she will purchase as the health and beauty care manager at French Broad Food Co-op.

That means she accepts no ginseng that walks in, freshly dug, from a seller right off the street. And she especially wouldn’t buy roots in the spring, the time of year when ginseng needs to remain in the ground to continue ripening…